Talk:Maternalist reform

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Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Expand : References, international perspectives, specific examples
NPOV : Reword article in spots
Wikify : Link up to other pages

Topics for expansion

This article could connect to lots of other articles on early 20th century reform, both in the US and Europe, including:

child labor restriction and compulsory schooling
mothers' pensions
woman suffrage
temperance/prohibition (US)

It needs to have a section with specific examples of maternalist reforms, and it needs to describe the successes and limits of these reforms. Since maternalism is a major topic in the historiography of US women, it might also bear with a paragraph or 2 on historians' changing interpretations over time. ---Shane Landrum (cliotropic | talk | contribs) 23:38, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Related Entries

I've just added a Related Entries section with a few items I thought of off the top of my head. This list could get a lot longer. It would be a good idea to edit each of the entries listed there so that it links back to this article. ---Shane Landrum (cliotropic | talk | contribs) 17:23, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Historiography

Come on, graduate students--- I know someone out there's written a seminar paper on the historiography of maternalist reform that you want to cut down and clean up for this article. Put it into its own section, please. ---Shane Landrum (cliotropic | talk | contribs) 17:38, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]